Match Thread | Man City vs Real Madrid (24/07/15 @ 11am)

[ChampZA]

Should buy Otamendi and a leftback. Sell Koralov asap and loan Denayer to a good team.

 

[Phil1]

tbf 99% of those are RM fans

Aww they're not even bothering to be subtle these days - straight in with the attendance 'banter'.

 

[Chippy_boy]

5 minutes of Real passing the ball and retaining possession despite pressing from us. Clichy gets the ball back finally, and after 3 touches passes it to Dobbin Dzeko who gives it away with his first touch. Lovely stuff.

 

[01cravend]

Dzekos value falling by the touch

 

[Damien10]

Lost count at how many times Dezko has lost the ball. I wouldn't pay 10 million for him if I was Roma.

 

[BucksBlue]

Reality check.....
Would you rather have your first team beaten by New York Red Bulls reserves by a similar score?
Our young lads will be stronger for this 'experience'.
Deep breathe and back to the transfer threads.

 

[BerkshireBlue]

Can we please buy a LB now?

Clichy and Kolarov are the best left backs we've had for a long long time but we are trying to get to the next level are they are sticking out sore thumbs now and have to be upgraded

 

[Marvin]

funny how ppl lose it over a friendly against probably the best eleven in world football. In a game, where we only have three maybe four first teames on the pitch.

This isn't good enough, despite being a friendly. I expect, 2 weeks out from the season, for us to be using a defensive line-up we'd expect to play, and I expected Pelle to step up and fix many of the defensive problems, he clearly hasn't. He better have it fixed in 2 weeks, he has no credits left, and nowhere to hide. Fix it.

The problem is this trip full stop. Why set up a prestige friendly when you have no players

 

[chestervegasblue]

Lost count at how many times Dezko has lost the ball. I wouldn't pay 10 million for him if I was Roma.

How much can we pay Roma to take him?

 

[Sergio Picasso Aguero]

I can see it now "So Merse, why did City not win the title? Well Jeff, I could tell from that friendly against Madrid that they weren't gonna win it, I didn't need me crystal ball for this one."